The Best TVs of CES 2025

Just like every CES before it, CES 2025 is a veritable showcase for the newest TVs and display technologies. At this year’s event, the best new TVs get even bigger, with many 100-inch models or bigger making their way to the trade show floor. Of course, it’s not just massive screen sizes drawing all the people’s attention. There’s the brighter-than-ever OLED panels, the “TV as an art display” designs, and the maturing mini LED panels, whose time to overtake OLED might have finally come.

These are the best TVs and display innovations at CES 2025.

LG G5 OLED TV

The follow up to last year’s G4, which is arguably the best OLED TV of the year, this 4K OLED panel ditches the Micro Lens Array (MLA) technology of its predecessor, while still managing to make the TV brighter than before. It achieves this by using the outfit’s new “Brightness Booster Ultimate” technology, details for which are still unrevealed, which, they claim, enables three times higher brightness compared to conventional OLED models. According to LG, the TV received UL Solutions’ “Perfect Black” and “Perfect Color” verification, as well as an Intertek certification for 100 percent color fidelity. It also has a new Filmmaker Mode with Ambient Light Compensation, which accurately detects the ambient lighting and automatically adjusts the picture settings to maintain the filmmaker’s intended aesthetic, along with 165Hz variable refresh rate for smoother gaming visuals.

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LG M5 OLED TV

The M5 mirrors the G5’s features in a lot of ways. Sure, there are some differences here and there (it has a lower 144Hz refresh rate, for instance), but you get mostly the same TV, including the absence of MLA technology. The big difference, though, is the M5’s wireless design, as it puts all the TV inputs in a separate box, which wirelessly transmits the video and audio to the TV panel. Basically, if you like the G5, but would prefer a more wire-free TV solution, this is the 4K display you’ll want to wait for this year.

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Panasonic Z95B OLED TV

Last year’s Z95A was a great TV, but it was priced just a tad too high, while coming in just a single size (65 inches). This year’s follow-up will offer buyers a few more options in 55-, 65-, and 75-inch sizes, while vowing to deliver big improvements in brightness, contrast, and color volume, courtesy of a new Primary RGB Tandem Panel and the outfit’s ThermalFlow cooling. The onboard audio seems to have received a lot of focus on this model, as Panasonic claims to have redesigned their speaker units (including throwing in a 30W internal woofer) and expanded the audio layout, ensuring a wider, more immersive soundstage, while incorporating tech that optimizes the sound based on the TV’s placement. Other features include Prime Video Calibrated Mode that automatically adjusts the picture to match the content playing, Fire TV software onboard, and gaming-friendly tech, such as AMD FreeSync Premium and Nvidia G-Sync.

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Hisense 136MX MicroLED

Chances are, very few people will purchase MicroLED TVs this year. The darn things are just way too expensive at the moment. That’s not stopping Hisense from releasing their “first consumer-ready MicroLED display,” which features 24.88 million microscopic LEDs that, the outfit claims, enable incredible levels of brightness, precision, and clarity. The 136-inch panel has 10,000 nits of peak brightness, 95 percent coverage for the BT.2020 color space, and black nanocrystals that enhance performance by reducing the panel’s reflectivity for exceptional clarity even in bright environments, while running the outfit’s proprietary VIDAA OS platform. It has all sorts of modern niceties onboard, including 120Hz VRR, Dolby Vision IQ, HDR10+, Filmmaker Mode, Dolby Atmos, DTS Virtual X, and more.

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Hisense 116UX Mini-LED TV

Hisense claims this 116-inch model is the first consumer-grade TV to use RGB local dimming, which introduces independent red, green, and blue LEDs that operate as independently-controlled clusters, allowing it to reproduce an impressive 97 percent of the BT.2020 color space, which, the outfit claims, is the widest color gamut ever achieved on a mini-LED panel. Because it generates color directly at the light source, it minimizes the loss of brightness found in other mini-LED solutions, all while allowing color and brightness to be adjusted fully independent from each other, which lets you maintain precise control over every pixel. They claim it has a peak brightness of 10,000 nits, by the way, which sounds ridiculous, while achieving a 38 percent reduction in harmful blue light emissions for more comfortable viewing over prolonged periods. Other features include a variety of AI-driven enhancements, Dolby Vision, Dolby Vision IQ, IMAX Enhanced, and 6.2.2-channel surround audio.

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Samsung S95F OLED TV

Samsung’s new OLED flagship is supposed to be the brightest OLED in the world – a whopping 30 percent brighter than any other panel in the market. It also gets an updated version of the outfit’s Glare-Free tech from its predecessor (S95D), which fixes the issue of elevated black levels in bright rooms that plagued the previous version, while still eliminating screen reflections as capably as before. Features include 165Hz VRR, a third-generation AI processor, and an AI Auto Game mode. It comes in 55-, 65-, 77-, and 83-inch sizes.

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Samsung The Frame Pro

Samsung created a whole new category with the original version of The Frame, which turned the living room TV into a veritable art display. However, it also uses pretty old tech, having come out back in 2017. The new Pro model upgrades the tech to something more contemporary. It now uses the outfit’s Neo QLED display, the same panel used in their high-end QN900 series, albeit using a modified version of that panel’s local dimming technology. It also ditches the wired connections, offloading it to a separate box that wirelessly transmits video and audio to the TV instead, so you only need to deal with the power cable, making it even easier to achieve its art display aesthetic.

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TCL QM6K QD-Mini-LED TV

Easily one of the best value you can get on a mini-LED TV, TCL’s upcoming panel starts out at just $749 for the 50-inch model, making for a downright crazy price to image quality ratio. It’s 53 percent brighter than its predecessor, while also improving light efficiency by 10 percent, ensuring better performance even when used at very well-lit spaces. According to TCL, they reduced the optical distance between the backlight and diffuser plate on this panel, which results in an 86 percent improvement in backlight uniformity and 67 percent reduction in blooming artifacts. Features include a static contrast of 7,000:1, 98 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut, 144Hz native refresh rate (with 288Hz game acceleration), Dolby Vision IQ, Dolby Atmos, a 2.1-channel Onkyo speaker system, and Google TV Smart OS.

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